I'd Be Ill Too

[Farmer Ted]

...if I paid $200 million for bunch of lousy players

New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner fell ill while attending his granddaughter's performance of Cabaret on Sunday at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., but is fine Tuesday in Tampa, Fla., according to his spokesman.

At intermission, a call was made to paramedics by an audience member who noticed Steinbrenner wasn't feeling well. Steinbrenner was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.

The story was first reported in Tuesday's edition of the Daily Tar Heel, the school newspaper, and confirmed for ESPN by Howard Rubenstein, Steinbrenner's personal spokesman.

Rubenstein told ESPN that doctors found nothing medically wrong with Steinbrenner, and he was released and flew back to his home in Tampa on Monday, where he worked Monday afternoon and is in the office Tuesday feeling well.

Rubenstein told ESPN the theater was not air conditioned and high temperatures may be responsible for Steinbrenner's distress.

According to the Daily Tar Heel, the Sunday afternoon performance was cut short when Department of Public Safety officials responded to a call that a man (Steinbrenner) was suffering from chest pains, DPS spokesman Randy Young said.

Sophomore Emily Riehl, who was in the audience, told the newspaper that the man was Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner was in attendance to watch his granddaughter, Hailey Swindal, a junior at the school, perform the lead role of Sally Bowles.

Young said the man (Steinbrenner) was "conscious, alert and breathing" when officials arrived at Playmakers Theatre between 3:30 and 3:41 p.m. ET.

But does she NEED a full scholarship???

http://www.culver.org/news/Campus_Releases/Swindal_Receives_Morehead.asp

a closeup of the little debutante

http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/students/morehead/2004/outofstate/swindal_julia.jpg

[Guest sharpie]

His chest pains probably began when Emily, dressed as Alex Rodriguez, came on stage and sang this song to a picture of Derek Jeter

Maybe this time, I'll be lucky
Maybe this time, he'll stay
Maybe this time
For the first time
Love won't hurry away

He will hold me fast
I'll be home at last
Not a loser anymore
Like the last time
And the time before

Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me;
'Lady Peaceful,' 'Lady Happy,'
That's what I long to be
All the odds are in my favor
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen, happen sometime
Maybe this time I'll win

[metirish]

I knew A-Rod had something to do with this..

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I dislike the man, but I'm uncomfortable joking about anyone's medical condition. It's bad for the Karma, IMO.

[Willets Point]

Turtlenecks run in the family.

[seawolf17]

She looks like she's about 40... she's supposed to be a college student?